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  • Basic Web Page

    The art of Self Discipline

    A Basic Web Page

    A basic web page has these parts.

    01) All HTML code has less than < and greater than > signs around the code. These pieces of code are called 'tags'

    02) The first tag is the <!DOCTYPE> type. It tells the browser the web standards used.

    02a) The <html> tag next tells the browser the type of code to look for on the page.
    HTML stands for HyperText Markup Language

    02b) An <html> must have an opening and a closing </html> tag.

    03) The <head> tag is next. It opens and closes before the <body> tag.

    04) Next is the <body> tag.

    04a) The <body> tag is the start of what you see.

    04b) A <body> tag must have an opening and a closing </body> tag.

    04c) There can be only one <body> </body> tag (opening and closing) per web site page.

    <head> tags on a website</head>

    3 more tags can be added to a web page to give the browser more information

    These tags go in the <head> tag.

    The first tag is the opening <head> tag.

    The <head> tag contains the <meta> </meta> tag and the <title> </title> tag

    The <meta> </meta> tag contains data about the web page, and things like character sets (language) and display types.

    There can be several <meta> </meta> tags for a web page.

    A <meta> tag must also have a </meta> closing tag.

    The <title> </title> tag has name of your website and is what search engines show when you do a search.

    The <head> tag can now be closed with a </head> closing tag tag.

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    <!DOCTYPE html>
    <html>

    <head>
    <meta></meta>
    <title></title>
    </head>

    <body>

    <h1>My First Heading</h1>
    <p>My first paragraph.</p>

    </body>

    </html>